Madeleine McLeester Department of Anthropology, 296 Corbett Family Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556 Telephone: (773) 301-9571 • Email: [email protected] • Website: madeleinemcleester.com EDUCATION 2017 PhD, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Department of Anthropology 2008 MA, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Department of Anthropology 2005 BA, The College, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Department of Anthropology with College honors and honors in Anthropology EMPLOYMENT 2017-present Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN AREAS OF RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTEREST Anthropological Theory; Archaeological Theory; Human-Environment Entanglements; Archaeobotanical Analysis; North American Archaeology; Agriculture; Colonialism; Political Ecology; Landscapes; Mobility RESEARCH GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS In review National Science Foundation Senior Archaeology Award. Local, dynamic landscapes of the Little Ice Age: Investigations of a 17th century Oneota village in the Upper Mississippi Valley, USA. (co-PI, with Mark Schurr, $246,730) 2019 Spatial Archaeometry Research Collaboration (SPARC) Grant, an NSF funded program administered by the University of Arkansas. Locating the Oneota Landsacpe at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie. 2018 Faculty Research Support Program Regular Grant, University of Notre Dame. Midewin Historical Ecology Project. (with Mark Schurr; $90,176) 2017 Challenge Cost-Share Agreement, U.S. Forest Service. Middle Grant Creek Archaeological Project at the Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie (MNTP). 17-CS- 11091500-003. (with Mark Schurr; $60,215) 2015 Mark Hanna Watkins Dissertation Fellowship, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago. ($20,000) 2013 Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant. Reconstructing the Calumet: Landscape Formation and Transformation During the Protohistoric and Historic Periods. ($20,000) 2013 Mark Hanna Watkins Post-Field Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago. (Competitive) 2009 Leiffer Pre-Field Fellowship for pollen analysis, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago. (Competitive) 2008 Provost Summer Award Fellowship for pollen analytical training, University of Chicago. (Competitive) 2005 Foreign Language and Area Studies (Title VI) Fellowship for Russian language study, University of Chicago. (Competitive) 1 PUBLICATIONS (PEER REVIEWED) In Review McLeester, M. and Schurr, M. Paleoclimate of the Little Ice Age to the Present in the Kankakee Valley of Illinois and Indiana, USA based on 18O/16O isotope ratios of freshwater shells, submitted to Environmental Archaeology. 2019 McLeester, M., Schurr, M., Sterner, K., and Ahlrichs, R., Protohistoric Marine Shell Working: New Evidence from Northern Illinois, American Antiquity 87(3): 549-558. 2018 McLeester, M., Storage, Seasonality, and Women’s Labor in Northern Illinois: Reintroducing Pollen Analysis to Investigations of Protohistory, North American Archaeologist 39(4): 239-259. 2018 McLeester, M., Casana, J., Schurr, M., A. Chad Hill, and Wheeler, J., Detecting Prehistoric Landscape Features Using Thermal, Multispectral, and Historical Imagery Analysis at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, Illinois, Journal of Archaeological Science Reports 21: 450-459. PUBLICATIONS IN PREPARATION In Prep McLeester, M. and Casana, J. Finding Fields: Locating Wisconsin’s Landscapes in Historical Aerial Photography, to be submitted to American Antiquity in Fall 2019. In Prep Schurr, M. and McLeester, M. Storage at a Huber Phase Agricultural Village, to be submitted to Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology. In Prep McLeester, M., “Every Plant is Medicine:” The Role of the Individual and Secrecy in Land Use Systems, to be submitted to American Anthropologist. In Prep McLeester, M., Kuijt, I., and Schurr, M. Tracking Agricultural Changes through Late Woodland Storage Systems in the Midwest, to be submitted to Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. TECHNICAL REPORTS 2019 Schurr, M. and McLeester, M. The 2018 Archaeological Investigations at the Old College Site (12 SJ 228) at the University of Notre Dame. Submitted to the Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology, Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Indianapolis, Indiana. Permit #2018025. BOOK REVIEWS 2016 Book Review of Nature and Antiquities: Making of Nature in the Americas, edited by Philip L. Kohl, Irina Podgorny, and Stefanie Ganger, Bulletin of Latin American Research, 35: 4. PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS Qualified Principal Investigator (prehistoric and historic), Indiana INVITED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS 2020 “Cultivated Spaces: Rethinking Place at the Cusp of Colonialism in Illinois,” A. Watson Armour III Research Seminar, Field Museum, Chicago, May 2020 “Finding Fields: Locating Wisconsin’s Landscapes in Historical Aerial Photography,” presenter, with Jesse Casana Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting in the 2 session Finding Fields: Locating and Interpreting Ancient Agricultural Systems, Austin, April 2019 “Uncovering the Unknown, Unique, and (sometimes) Unclear Past: A Report on the Summer 2018 Archaeological Excavations at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie” with Mark Schurr (Notre Dame) and Terry Martin (Illinois State Museum), public lecture at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, Wilmington, IL, March 2019 “Ritual Traces: Unpacking the Challenges of Late Precontact Rituals at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, IL,” presenter, with Mark Schurr, Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting in the session Silenced Rituals in Indigenous North American Archaeology, Albuquerque, April 2018 “Coastal Trade and Human-Environment Entanglements in Illinois,” public lecture at the Wisconsin Archaeological Society, Milwaukee, WI, May 2018 “Every Plant is Medicine: Overlapping Categories in Food Production and Ritual,” invited presenter, Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting in the session Ritual Ecologies of Food Production in the Ancient World, organized by Rebecca Bria, Washington DC, April 2018 “Exotic Expectations: Protohistoric Landscapes and Lifeways at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, IL,” presentation at the Department of Anthropology Colloquium, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, January 2018 “Exotic Expectations: Protohistoric Landscapes and Lifeways at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, IL,” presentation at the Department of Anthropology, Wichita State University, Wichita, February 2018 “Long Before the Arsenal: Archaeological Explorations at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie,” with Mark Schurr (Notre Dame), public lecture at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, Wilmington, IL, January 2017 Guest Lecturer, Notre Dame Summer Scholars Program, Notre Dame, IN, July 2017 “Prehistory on the Prairie: Archaeological Explorations at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie,” with Mark Schurr (Notre Dame), public lecture at Wisconsin Archaeological Society [Three Rivers], Rockton, IL, March 2017 “Prehistory on the Prairie: Archaeological Explorations at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie,” with Mark Schurr (Notre Dame), public lecture at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, Wilmington, IL, March 2016 Guest Lecturer, Notre Dame Summer Scholars Program, Notre Dame, IN, July 2016 “Longhouses on the Prairie: Late Prehistoric Archaeology of the Chicago Region,” public lecture given at the South Suburban Archaeological Society, Homewood, IL, March 2015 “Longhouses on the Prairie: Late Prehistoric Archaeology of the Chicago Region,” public lecture given at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, Wilmington, IL, February 2015 Archaeobotanical Guest Lecturer, Notre Dame Summer Scholars Program, Notre Dame, IN, July 2014 “Leaving the Longhouse: Palynological Evidence for Seasonal Mobility and Historical Connections in Prairie Protohistory,” public lecture given at the Illinois State Museum Brown Bag series, Springfield, IL, December 2014 “Pollen on the Prairie: Environmental Reconstructions, Resource Use, and Site Dynamics at Oak Forest,” invited presenter, Midwest Archaeological Conference in the session Recent Research in Paleoethnobotany, organized by Dr. Mary Simon, Urbana-Champaign, October 2014 “Chicago Area Archaeology,” guest speaker, Lake Forest University, presented to Introduction to Archaeology course, Lake Forest, IL, November 2014 Archaeobotanical Guest Lecturer, Notre Dame Field School, The Bailly Homestead and Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Chesterton, IN, July 3 2013 “Chicago Area Archaeology,” guest speaker, Lake Forest University, presented to Introduction to Archaeology course, Lake Forest, IL, November 2012 Archaeobotanical Guest Lecturer, Notre Dame Field School, Collier Lodge, Chesterton, IN, July OTHER PRESENTED PAPERS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS 2018 “Native Prairie: The Kankakee Protohistory Project and Ongoing Excavations at the Terminal Prehistoric Middle Grant Creek Site in Northern Illinois,” with Mark Schurr, presented at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington DC, April 2017 “Marine Shell, Painted Pottery, and a Curious Point: A Report on Ongoing Excavations at the very late prehistoric Middle Grant Creek site in Northern Illinois,” with Mark Schurr, presented at the Midwest Archaeological Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, October 2017 “Middle Grant Creek: A Rare Example of a Single Component Huber Phase Site on the Illinois Prairie,” with Mark Schurr, presented at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, BC, April 2016 “Middle Grant Creek: A Rare Example of a Single Component Huber Phase